Football tournament for underprivileged children- The 2013 14th Hoa Sen Tole Cup was kick off on a large scale at Military Zone 7 gymnasium in Ho Chi Minh City with the appearance of special limbless writer Nick Vujicic. A thrilling match was taken placed between host Ho Chi Minh City and the 4th reformatory.

Receving flowers from president Truong Tan Sang

Football tournament for underprivileged children- The Hoa Sen Tole Cup is hold annually for underprivileged children at Ho Chi Minh City in special and thorough out country in commonly. A special thing in this tournament is that the appearance of the famous limbless Nick Vujicic. Though he was born without legs or hands, he rose up and got successes, this is a real example of hustler for Vietnamese underprivileged children.

Audiences were witnessed an exciting score chasing game between host Ho Chi Minh city and 4th reformatory before Nick’s talk. With quick and qualified play style, Ho Chi Minh’s young players created many attacks toward 4th reformatory’s goal area. However, visitors by their physical strength had opened 1-0. However, 2 minutes later HCM’s Thanh Luan equalized 1-1 for the host. Entering the second half, the host raised line up highly, in consequently Lam Tuong scored 2-1 for HCM. Nevertheless the host had to share 1 point with 4th reformatory in the last minutes of the game from Cong Anh’s breakthrough over 3 defenders equalizing 2-2.

Encourage teams

Remained games of Group A in the afternoon were ended with result 7-1 for Ca Mau over Ha Noi. In group B, the 5th reformatory had an emphatic 13-1win over Ben Tre. In the last match Gia Lai had won 6-1 over Da Nang.

Organizers take photo with Nick

Some images from the Opening ceremony of Football tournament for underprivileged children and Nick’s talk.